OpenAI’s Strawberry will turn you into paperclips any day now According to a “leak,” OpenAI is working on a project codenamed “Strawberry” — a new AI technology that can reason! Totally like a human! [R Pivot to AI pivot to ai
LLM vendors are incredibly bad at responding to security issues IT consultant Mark Pesce was building an LLM-based similarity finder for a legal client. He discovered a prompt that reliably caused multipl Pivot to AI pivot to ai
a16z is working hard to get stuck with last year’s Nvidia chips Nvidia GPU chips, the favored engine for AI number crunching, are still in restricted supply — though not nearly as tightly as in 2023. But Pivot to AI pivot to ai
OpenAI and Arianna Huffington: transforming healthcare with nagbots The US healthcare system is about the worst to be found in a first-world country, with crippling medical bills and racketeering medical insu Pivot to AI pivot to ai
LA school chatbot vendor goes bust, student data at risk On March 20, the Los Angeles Unified School District launched an exciting new chatbot: “Ed,” a friend to students and parents! [Ed] LAUSD Su Pivot to AI pivot to ai
Venture capital kept shoveling money into AI startups in Q2 2024 In the second quarter of 2024, AI startups were still getting insane amounts of money from venture capitalist investment. This is despite an Pivot to AI pivot to ai
Venture capital will eat itself The people yelling loudest about the potential of AI to drive humans out of their jobs are venture capitalists. It turns out they were right Pivot to AI pivot to ai
Ray Kurzweil thinks AI will make him immortal Ray Kurzweil is a genius computer scientist with considerable real-world achievements in optical character recognition, assistive tools, and Pivot to AI pivot to ai
LLMs can solve any word problem! As long as they can crib the answer AI companies keep claiming that LLMs do reasoning. The AI can think! The AI can figure out word puzzles! The AI can pass the LSAT! You’re fi Pivot to AI pivot to ai
ChatGPT spills its prompt You can get ChatGPT to spill the initial prompt it’s initialized with before it talks to you. What spectacular feat of hacking could crack t Pivot to AI pivot to ai
Google and Microsoft are getting dirtier. They can’t help it, it’s AI! Microsoft released its 2024 environmental report in May, and Google released its report in June. Both companies have a goal of zero net emis Pivot to AI pivot to ai
Silvergate settles with SEC, DFPI, and Federal Reserve over FTX money laundering With a sufficiently awful public disaster, there’s always room for more scorching. Amy Castor by Amy Castor and David Gerard attack of the 50 foot blockchain
Google News still serving plagiarized spam ahead of the originals it’s ripping off AI plagiarism from content farms is still getting shown in Google News ahead of the originals it’s ripping off. Wired found that the Syrus # Pivot to AI pivot to ai
Jason Rohrer’s Project December: AI seances at $10 a pop Hey, chatbot entrepreneurs, let’s prey on the grieving! Project December will “simulate the dead” for just $10 a session. You select from a Pivot to AI image: early “grieftech” entrepreneur Helena Blavatsky pivot to ai
Microsoft: You wouldn’t download a car. That’s our job. Microsoft’s CEO of AI, Mustafa Suleyman, spoke with CNBC’s Andrew Ross Sorkin at the Aspen Ideas Festival on June 25. And Suleyman certainly Pivot to AI pivot to ai
